AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF HAIRDRESSING AND WIGMAKING. Containing words, terms and phrases (current and obsolete), dialectical, foreign and technical, used in Britain and America pertaining to the crafts of hairdressing and wigmaking; also words derived from these crafts having a wider use; but excluding, with some necessary exceptions, medical, chemical and scientific terms.

Illustr, 9.5 x 6, pict wraps, 359 pp. Light wear and soiling to covers, upper spine bumped, 1 1/2" vertical tear along upper rear spine, front inner hinge cracking else very good. Covers mainly the 18th and 19th centuries. From the inside cover: "The writer was a practising wigmaker and Ladies' Hairdresser for 30 years in the family business at Bristol, founded in 1850, by his maternal grandfather, John Stevens . . . The original manuscript work-books of John Stevens and his wife, Frances, have provided important evidence of terms, uses and processes of the Victorian period." FIRST ED.